Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States, labor and freedom of contract have in general been allowed to develop under few restrictions. The Supreme Court has just ruled against the state law of Kansas which prescribed compulsory settlement of wage disputes. This law had imposed the greatest measure of state interferenced in Labour Problems yet attended in the United States, and even this much has been discouraged by the Supreme Court...
...such education can be spread widely through the rank and file, industry may at last proceed by the rule of economic reason. Arbitration boards, wage-fixing commissions, cooperative movements will always be temporary expedients, and are now too often mere sops to stop the growls of the workingman. Reforms which are to be lasting must come from within, and the unions should, for their own self-respect, be allowed to act as their own doctors. If their college lives up to expectations, their best prescription would be the establishment of Brookwood scholarships...
...present attacks on the Court are occasioned by its declaration against a minimum wage law. And, incidentally, radicals and Mr. Hearst object to Mr. Taft's $10,000 annuity from steel bonds...
...Welsh parents who immigrated in the 70's. His father was a blacklisted coal miner in the " Big Screen Strike" of 1882 and was forced to go to Des Moines. Those were the times of the ten-and eleven-hour day and a minimum wage...
...occasion of the resolution was the Supreme Court's decision voiding the minimum wage law for women in the District of Columbia...